Ricardo Garces

Psycho Killer is from the debut album Talking Heads: 77 (1977). David Byrne began writing music in 1973/74, when he was in art school (RISD) with Chris Frantz. "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" It was written by bassist Tina Weymouth (the only one who spoke French in the band). Originally Byrne wanted a part in Japanese, but the idea was abandoned. “fa fa fa fa fa” was inspired by Otis Redding.

Mexico paid $20 million for eight minutes in this movie. Then those eight minutes forced them to invent an entire cultural tradition. Before Spectre, Mexico City had no Day of the Dead parade. The holiday was celebrated at home, at cemeteries, with family altars. Quiet, intimate, centuries old. Sam Mendes fabricated a massive street parade for the opening sequence, shot it with 1,500 extras in skeleton costumes across the Zócalo, and audiences worldwide assumed they were watching a real annual event. Mexico's government had negotiated hard for the placement. Leaked Sony hack emails showed officials offered up to $20 million in tax incentives for four minutes of positive portrayal. Sony was drowning in a $300 million budget. The deal included script changes: the Bond girl had to be a Mexican actress, the villain could not be Mexican, and the city's modern skyline had to appear on screen. Then the movie opened in 182 countries and tourists started booking flights to Mexico City for the parade. The parade that did not exist. Tourism authorities panicked. Visitors were arriving expecting the spectacle they saw in the film and finding nothing. So in October 2016, the government spent $500,000, hired 650 volunteers, built dozens of floats and giant skeleton marionettes, and staged the first real Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City's history. 250,000 people showed up. They openly called it a "Spectre-style parade" in press materials. Ten years later, the parade draws millions. Anthropologists call it the "pizza effect," where a cultural element gets exported, transformed abroad, and reimported as authentic. Mexico's most famous public celebration of its most sacred holiday was invented by a British director shooting a $300 million spy movie. That tracking shot is doing more for Mexico City's economy every November than the $20 million they paid for it.

27 de mayo de 1840 — Muere Niccolò Paganini, el "Violinista del Diablo". El mayor virtuoso del violín de la historia falleció en Niza. Tocaba con una velocidad y flexibilidad tan imposibles (debido al síndrome de Marfan) que la sociedad juraba que había hecho un pacto satánico. Por ello, la Iglesia católica le negó el entierro en suelo sagrado y su cadáver pasó años viajando oculto en barcos y sótanos. ¿Creen que su genio musical fue pura anatomía o el mito del pacto ayudó a agigantar su leyenda?🎻😈🎼

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🔴⚡️En la Independencia, La Yunta, una pequeña cooperativa agrícola 🧑‍🌾, realiza a diario un acto de resistencia 💪vs. los grandes almacenes. Sin intermediarios, conectan directamente a Monterrey con el campo mexicano 🥚🌽 y con la gente q realmente viven d la tierra. ¡Apoyemos!

Amo a Prince pero Snoop tiene razón.